Well, opening images always takes disk access time.
Is the progress bar always moving slowly, or does it get 90% of the way then pause for a while? (which would indicate that some system call is taking forever)
No, it’s that I get the spinning wheel, then nothing for like five minutes. Finally, I get the clock and it opens in like 5 seconds. It’s like there’s some weird pause before it finally decides to "open" the image.
R~
Ok, still sounds like the OS is going away for a while.
Check your default printer and see if it’s set to something unavailable. Try changing the default printer to something else.
If that doesn’t work, try resetting the Photoshop preferences.
I dumped my PS prefs and changed to a different printer. No difference. It’s so weird, because it wasn’t having this problem until earlier today. Then whammo. I’ve seen this happen on a Mac Mini as well, but we figured it was just some weird quirk on there.
Any other ideas?
R~
One other weird thing – it opens up in no time in Image Ready. This is very strange.
R~
Something that Photoshop calls inside the OS is taking it’s sweet time returning.
So you need to think about what might have changed since it was last working normally. That could be as simple as network settings, or a program you added, or some OS option that you changed, etc.
If you haven’t changed anything (even adding a bad font or having a font get corrupted might do something like this) check how close to full your disk is. If it’s close to full Photoshop could be choking.
Randy, I am sure you have resolved this by now but thought I would share for anyone with the same issue. I was having the same problem and called adobe and finally we figured out it was because i was using bridge to view photos on a disc and it was causing some cache issues. So when I removed the disc from the drive the problem was solved. Hope that helps.
